Board Of Directors

Mr. Zeitlin is a private investor with interests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coach, Inc. and Founder of the Keffi Group.

He serves on the Boards of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc, Vascular Biogenics Ltd and also on the Boards of a number of charity and commercial interests.

He formerly served as a Partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he held a number of senior management positions, including that of Global Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Zeitlin holds an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and English from Amherst College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University.

Mr. Bello Maccido

Mr. Maccido is an accomplished Corporate and Investment banker with over 31 years post graduate experience.

He had at different times served on the Boards of FBN Holdings Plc, First Bank of Nigeria Plc and Legacy Pension Manager Limited and is currently the Chairman, FBN Merchant Bank Ltd.

Mr. Maccido is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.

Mr. Maccido holds a Law Degree (LL.B) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA respectively.

He is a Barrister at Law (BL) of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and an Alumnus of the Executive Business Programs of the Harvard Business School and the IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ms. Lois Laraba Machunga-Disu

Ms. Machunga-Disu is a seasoned petroleum-energy economist and analyst, with over 30 years Oil and Gas industry experience and is a provider of consulting and technical services in the sector, as CEO and Director in associate energy companies.

Prior to this, She worked for 21 years at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) where she held senior and management positions with experiences in, Exploration and Production (E&P) joint interest management with the major international oil companies (IOCs).

She was responsible for Budget and long term Strategic Plan Development, and member of large-scale engineering development Project Management, amongst others.

She has been involved in policy formulation and reforms through participation in many, Presidential, National Assembly (the Parliament), Ministerial and private sector Committees and serves as adviser to various international development agencies and local NGOs.

She is a member of the Institute of Petroleum (UK), Nigerian Gas Association, Nigerian Chamber of Shippers and the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), amongst others.

He is also a non-Executive Director of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and FBN Merchant Bank Limited.

He joined the Board of First Bank Plc, an FBN Holdings Company, in 2011 as Executive Director, Public Sector South and until his appointment as GMD of FBN Holdings was Executive Director, South at the Bank.

Mr. Eke is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a Paul Harris Fellow of The Rotary Club.

He holds a first degree in Political Science (University of Lagos) and an MBA in Project Management Technology (Federal University of Technology, Owerri).

He is also an Alumnus of the prestigious Wharton Business School and a recipient of Nigeria’s National Honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR).

Ms. Halima Buba

Ms. Buba is a seasoned financial services expert with nearly two decades of cognate experience spanning diverse functions in the banking industry.

She rose to the level of Deputy General Manager at Ecobank Nigeria Limited before resigning to take up appointment as a pioneer Executive Management staff at TAJ Consortium Nigeria Ltd.

Mrs. Ojekwe-Onyejeli joined NSIA following a distinguished tenure as Director and Head of Operational Risk & Control at Barclays covering Emerging Markets and Africa.

She served as Vice President and Head of Quality Assurance, Africa at Citibank with direct oversight of the enterprise risk and control environment in 14 countries across Africa.

She had a decade-long career at professional services firms Arthur Anderson and KPMG in Nigeria and South-Africa, providing financial advisory and business assurance services.

Mrs. Ojekwe-Onyejeli was a Federal Government of Nigeria Scholar, and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria Prize Winner. She is a qualified Chartered Financial and Tax Accountant, who holds a first degree in Chemistry from the University of Lagos.